Buy War Bonds! -- More Tomahawks for Our United Warriors
- Item sets
- World War II Posters
- Title
- Buy War Bonds! -- More Tomahawks for Our United Warriors
- Creator
- United States. War Savings Staff
- Publisher
- United States. Government Printing Office
- Date
- 1942
- Description
- All over the country Americans still in school are making posters that tell how they feel about the war, and how they want others to feel. In a way, they all feel alike--as the posters show. They all want their country to win quickly and triumphantly. All the poster-makers urge us to save, to conserve, to work with whatever talents we have at the wartime jobs that come to hand--as they themselves are doing through their art. Some of these student poster-makers say these things differently because they see America and the war with a special vision. The three posters on this page were made by boys who see America as the home their people have had always. They share it with us now and they see the war as their fight to be fought with their ancient courage and cunning, but by modern methods. The larger poster, by Ben Quintana, is especially interesting because it shows what Indian children actually must do to help. It describes better than words what it is like to ride for miles over the bright, bare cactus-studded land and buy War Stamps at a desert post office. Ben Quintana (Ha-a-Tee), and Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa) who painted the smoke-signal poster, and Charles Presbetonequa who painted the "Tomahawk" poster are all students at the United States Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Subject
- Children and war
- Indian School Service (U.S.)
- Savings bonds
- War posters, American
- World War, 1939-1945--Children
- World War, 1939-1945--Posters
- World War, 1939-1945--United States
- Note
- These posters have been reproduced and distributed by the Education Section, War Savings Staff, Teasury Department, through the State War Savings Offices. To display, cut them apart as indicated by the dotted lines.
- U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489363. WSS 625.
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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